Education: Education

Eleven thousand anxious boys and
girls watched last week, as they had already watched for a fortnight,
for the postman. But even when he came they turned away still worried,
depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the
newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their
tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College
Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was
delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously
scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith,...